I haven’t had time to respond to this from a few days back, but Eric Worrall did.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Global Heating
Our children will never know what snow in Yosemite in mid-May looks like.
This has been an unusually wet winter, even in southern California. We got quite a bit of rain here early Sunday morning, with more showers expected in the next couple days and this weekend (Memorial Day!). The new growth, including in the burn areas up the coast north of Malibue, is tremendous. It’s still green, and will be into June or July, but it’s going to make a lot of fuel when the rains stop in late summer and fall. If every winter was like this one, we would no longer be living in a desert. That’s the kind of climate change I could definitely get behind. But we’d still be stuck with our crazy voters and government.
Electron Crystallography
An interesting breakthrough. I wonder where it might lead?
The Great Migration Into Space
Thoughts on Musk and Bezos from Peter Diamandis.
More thoughts, on science fiction versus science fact, from The Economist‘s Oliver Morton.
Etruscan
What did it sound like?
I’m always a little skeptical that they can be sure of things like this.
AOC’s Apocalypse
Hey, stupid conservatives, I was just kidding. Why can’t you take a joke?
[Update a few minutes later]
Thoughts from Treacher.
The Left’s Ongoing War On Science
Twitter has blocked an eminent psychologist for political incorrectness on gender.
[Update Monday morning]
Related, sort of: Conservatives should not fear evolutionary theory. It would be nice to get them to accept this, because it’s one of the few areas in which the Left can claim that “the right” is “anti-science.” It’s nice to see this published at National Review.
Cholesterol
Everything we’ve been told about it and fat is wrong.
I quit listening to them years ago, but this is criminal.
The Second Colorado Shooter
This isn’t good for the narrative:
There is a mental health crisis among American kids that is fueled by prescription drugs and the fake news media that thrives on fear-mongering. Until that is addressed, these kinds of events will continue. It’s clear that Erickson held deeply bigoted assumptions about Christians “hating gays” which is constantly repeated by the media and fuels this kind of violence.
The scientific community should be hanging their heads today too. Further research should be done to discover if artificially changing the hormonal structure of human beings increases aggression or psychosis. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and puberty blockers are given to children who think they are the opposite sex as young as 8 years old. Testosterone is known to be the hormone that regulates aggression. What studies have been done on the safety of administering testosterone to females during puberty? Are there any? According to a PBS report, the studies are few and the long term effects are unknown.
“The bottom line is we don’t really know how sex hormones impact any adolescent’s brain development,” Dr. Lisa Simons, a pediatrician at Lurie Children’s, said. “We know that there’s a lot of brain development between childhood and adulthood, but it’s not clear what’s behind that.”
We’re living in the crazy years.
[Thursday-morning update]
When will we start to deal with the Columbiner subculture? As Glenn notes, it’s blowback in the war on boys.